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Fwd: [tor-talk] How does one remove the NSA Virus off the BIOS Chip as described by Snowden in the ANT Program
by coderman 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

it should be noted that BIOS exports contain device identifiers, like HDD serials and so forth... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] How does one remove the NSA Virus off the BIOS Chip as described by Snowden in the ANT Program On 11/21/15, Flipchan <flipchan(a)riseup.net> wrote: > I would like to help in anyway i can , i'm currently developing an anti > virus and auditing multi platform program , So if u can find out/copy all > the viruses the nsa have given You and send it i would love to help on > detecting and protecting ppl from it :) you say "find out, copy all" like it's so easy, *grin* here's some fun for you: https://peertech.org/files/taobios-v2.tar.bz2 $ sha256sum taobios-v2.tar.bz2 0ba12b0ecf89d109301b619cbc8275e5cd78b6fefd3724fba0b6952186e37779 interesting details in both samples! ( L2 is config only PDoS via UEFI BIOS :) best regards,

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Fwd: Switzerland will have a referendum on whether to stop private banks from creating money out of thin air.
by Zenaan Harkness 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

As timely as it gets. Go the Swiss!! Z ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:20:00 +1100 Subject: Switzerland will have a referendum on whether to stop private banks from creating money out of thin air. Re: Switzerland ... to stop banks from creating money ----- Original Message ----- From: Betty Luks <elizabeth(a)alor.org> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:14:14 +1030 To: Brian McDermott <admin(a)freestatevoice.com.au> Subject: Fwd: Switzerland ... to stop banks from creating money Thought this would be of interest to you Brain.... Best wishes Betty Luks Begin forwarded message: From: François de Siebenthal <siebenthal(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: social-credit(a)googlegroups.com Bcc: social-credit(a)googlegroups.com Date: 9 December 2015 9:03:46 PM ACDT Subject: Switzerland ... to stop private banks from creating money out of nothing - thin air - and then lending it out as an interesting-bearing debt! Switzerland will have a referendum on whether to stop private banks from creating money out of thin air. <http://positivemoney.org/2015/12/switzerland-will-have-a-referendum-on-whet…> http://desiebenthal.blogspot.ch/2015/12/swiss-positive-money-social-credit.… HOME <http://positivemoney.org/> » BLOG <http://positivemoney.org/blog/> » 2015 <http://positivemoney.org/2015/> » DECEMBER <http://positivemoney.org/2015/12/> » 08 <http://positivemoney.org/2015/12/08/> » SWITZERLAND WILL. <http://positivemoney.org/2015/12/switzerland-will-have-a-referendum-on-whet…> WRITTEN BY POSITIVE MONEY ON DECEMBER 8, 2015. The Swiss population will be the first in the world to vote on their banking and money system, thanks to the tireless efforts of our sister organisation Modernizing Money <http://www.vollgeld-initiative.ch/> (MoMo). The campaign, which has involved over 100 activists collecting signatures, gathered 111,819 signatures to have a referendum on removing the power that banks currently have to create money when they make loans. They made it within 18 months, which under Swiss law results in a referendum. <http://positivemoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/switzerland-money-creat…> On Tuesday 1st December Positive Money's director Fran Boait and the coordinator of the international movement for monetary reform Stan were in Switzerland at the invitation of the MoMo to officially hand in the petition with all the signatures to the Swiss Parliament. This was a great day for the monetary reform movement. Some of the other members of the International movement and also NEF joined the MoMo in Switzerland to celebrate handing in the petition and to begin planning a strategy for the referendum. Here you can view the video of the hand-in (although the commentary is available only in German): <http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a0942ee6-9a98-11e5-be4f-0abd1978acaa.html#ax…> The Financial Times has reported about it in an article entitled "A licence to print e-money for private banks" <http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a0942ee6-9a98-11e5-be4f-0abd1978acaa.html#ax…> by Martin Sandbu: But what if ordinary joes like you and me cotton on to this scam <http://positivemoney.org/2015/09/survey-confirms-people-have-no-idea-about-…> ? What scam? That private banks just create money at will. You mean you agree with this Swiss initiative now? How could I not? If banks can just print electronic money, that's just as destabilising as printing notes freely. It's a really great article. You can read it in full here <http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a0942ee6-9a98-11e5-be4f-0abd1978acaa.html#ax…> . One of our twitter followers have commented on it with the words: Duncan McCann, researcher on Economy and Finance from NEF was there at the hand-in of signatures as well and has written an article about it which you can read here <http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/entry/who-should-be-responsible-for-creati…> . Although the battle to get the Swiss parliament to acknowledge the current problems with the Swiss monetary system will be hard, the referendum offers perhaps the greatest opportunity we've seen in Europe for a fundamental rethink of the current monetary system and a genuine debate about the future of economics. Economist Steve Keen added that "whatever the outcome of this proposal, the debate it will allow over our monetary system is one that we have to have". Please share this <http://act.positivemoney.org/page/m/-50024aad/44deaf51/591ecee5/1630c7ec/79…> to help us support this campaign. http://desiebenthal.blogspot.ch/2015/12/swiss-positive-money-social-credit.… Un banquier suisse, votre serviteur, explique en 3 minutes l'arnaque de la création monétaire, avec le Canada comme exemple. Vidéo Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/LePeupleEstRoi/videos/vb.152656254942354/398971633… <https://www.facebook.com/LePeupleEstRoi/videos/vb.152656254942354/398971633…> Tiré de l'émission "Qu'est-ce qu'elle a ma girl" de becurioustv.com. <http://becurioustv.com/> https://www.facebook.com/LePeupleEstRoi/videos/465320713675905/?comment_id=… Chaque année, une semaine d'étude a lieu à Rougemont au Canada en 4 langues .... Repas et couchers gratuits pour tous nos invités des pays hors du Canada. Autre période de formation en avril-mai chaque année. Semaines d'études sur la démocratie économique Deux fois par année à Rougemont, basées sur le livre La démocratie économique <http://michaeljournal.org/10lecons.htm> (ou Crédit Social) expliquée en dix leçons, par Alain Pilote. LES PROCHAINES SESSIONS D'ÉTUDE SUR LA DÉMOCRATIE ÉCONOMIQUE auront lieu:soit au premier qui aura lieu du 10 au 22 avril 2016, suivi de notre semaine d'adoration du 24 au 30 avril, suivie de notre assemblée mensuelle fixée au 1 mai 2016. · soit au second qui se tiendra du 15 au 31 juillet, y compris les 3 journées de notre congrès annuel international en 4 langues ( fr. eng. spa. pol. ). Vous pouvez arriver et repartir quelques jours avant et après ces dates. Lisez le dernier Vers Demain en ligne: http://versdemain.org/TOUS_VD/vd_mjj_2015.pdf http://tracking.funio.com/c/443/1d872199859645440c32ab8820184bfda3c76895917…> François de Siebenthal à faire circuler largement, merci, le monde est déjà meilleur grâce à ce simple geste de solidarité. ---- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Social Credit" group.

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Interest free finance - Russian and her national economic survival
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

http://russia-insider.com/en/christianity/russia-debates-unorthodox-orthodo… The "the Anglo-American free-market banking model" is AFAICT the criminal privatisation of national government owned and controlled banks, and holding nations and their peoples hostage to the usury and market manipulation of those who privately own those banks. As a prime example, our Australian national bank has been (illegally) privatised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Bank >From debt free after WWII, to a trillion dollar debt today, we have been thoroughly sold out and fucked over (original link giving 406 - may be a TBB thing): http://www.michaeljournal.org/australia.htm https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UIqRZBDMRLEJ:http://w… and pretending that asset sales somehow is a good thing: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/totally-debtfree-were-well-in-the-money… another one not coming up at the main link: http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/banking/money.html https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7gZl5b4uMjMJ:http://w… Interesting graphs of US debt as percentage of GDP, going back, way back (with commentary/ analysis): http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/the-long-story-of-us-de…

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Wired Outs Satoshi?
by Mike Duvos 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

"In the last weeks, WIRED has obtained the strongest evidence yet of Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity. The signs point to Craig Steven Wright, a man who never even made it onto any Nakamoto hunters’ public list of candidates, yet fits the cryptocurrency creator’s profile in nearly every detail. And despite a massive trove of evidence, we still can’t say with absolute certainty that the mystery is solved. But two possibilities outweigh all others: Either Wright invented bitcoin, or he’s a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did." http://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-… Previous candidates include Newsweek's expose on Dorian Nakamoto, and the suggestion that our own Nick Szabo is the guilty party. In other news, I just got one of the lovely new Bitcoin VISA Debit Cards put out by Shift. I can now spend my Bitcoins at 38 million merchants worldwide. Science marches on. -- Mike Duvos mpd(a)wolf359.net

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yahoo encryption article
by jim bell 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/faq-how-encryption-works-and-why-people-are-so-1… Encryption has been all over the headlines after recent terrorist attacks, and the discussion can quickly get cryptic. Is “crypto” a fatal weakness of the Internet? An endangered species that must be saved? You can hear heartfelt testimony for either view from both Democratic and Republican politicians. But ultimately, encryption is just math that, like any other tool, can be used for good or ill. Let’s start with some basics about it that often get neglected in all the commentary. Q. It was my understanding there would be no math in this story…? A. Sorry, it’s unavoidable: Encryption works by encoding information in such a way that its recipient can decode it (without further help from its sender), but no one else can. To do that scrambling, you need to run the original data through one equation or another. For example, to encrypt something against the prying eyes of somebody who’s really, really drunk, you could just replace each letter with one 13 places forward (so “A” becomes “N” and so on). If your eavesdropper is more capable, you’ll need something more complicated — but it’s still all equations. Q. Okay. What makes for strong cryptography? A. Using more complex math in an encryption algorithm only goes so far if the sender and recipient use the same key — that is, if they both plug the same secret set of digits into the encryption formula — to encrypt and decrypt. In that case, if either party loses the key, game over.

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Donald Trump Wants to Shut Down the Internet
by Mike Duvos 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

[Hours after Donald Trump <http://www.dailydot.com/tags/donald-trump/> suggested the U.S. ban Muslims from entering the United States <http://www.dailydot.com/politics/donald-trump-shutdown-all-muslim-immigrati…>, the leading Republican presidential candidate said America should also consider “closing the Internet up in some way” to fight Islamic State <http://www.dailydot.com/tags/isis/> terrorists in cyberspace. Trump mocked anyone who would object that his plan might violate the freedom of speech, saying “these are foolish people, we have a lot of foolish people.” “We have to go see Bill Gates,” Trump said, to better understand the Internet and then possibly “close it up.”'] http://www.dailydot.com/politics/trump-closing-the-internet-up-in-some-way/ Trump has finally jumped the shark. -- Mike Duvos mpd(a)wolf359.net

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Re: [tor-talk] LeMonde: France To Block Tor
by grarpamp 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Say a well-funded attacker takes the Carnegie Mellon deanonymization attack and introduces Sybil slowly over several months. The graph would look like this... https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?graph=networksize&start=200… > What then is the defense? Pray.

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Fwd: [Cryptography] Obama calls out encryption in terror strategy speech
by grarpamp 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:48 AM Subject: [Cryptography] Obama calls out encryption in terror strategy speech To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com FYI -- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/07/obama_encryption_policy_change_in_t… Obama calls out encryption in terror strategy speech President wants 'high-tech leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice' 7 Dec 2015 at 05:20, Simon Sharwood United States President Barack Obama has given just his third Address to the Nation from behind his desk at the Oval Office, to deliver a speech in which he all-but-called-on the technology industry to allow access to encrypted communications. The main purpose of the speech was to offer a response to last week's killings in San Bernadino. Obama said investigations have found “no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home” but did label "an act of terrorism" committed by people who "... had gone down the dark path of radicalization, embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam that calls for war against America and the West." The speech goes on to say that "as the Internet erases the distance between countries, we see growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds of people like the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino killers." Obama therefore explains the USA's immediate response to terrorism and particularly to ISIL, including military and diplomatic efforts, plus some restrictions on the right to purchase firearms and stronger screening of some visitors to America. Future actions, Obama said, will include an attempt to "urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice." The sentence isn't explained, but seems a clear reference to the technology industry's argument that encryption is essential for everyday life and therefore ought not to be equipped with back doors for government use. The term "escape from justice" also invokes a New York Times op-ed titled When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice. Penned by Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr, Paris chief prosecutor François Molins, commissioner of the City of London Police Adrian Leppard and chief prosecutor of the High Court of Spain Javier Zaragoza, the piece argued that "The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder to protect people from crime." Similar arguments emerged after the November 13th Paris attacks, when it was widely argued that the attacks may have been detected, and prevented, if law enforcement agencies had access to backdoors allowing easier and wider surveillance of encrypted communications services. Obama's speech is something of a reversal, as he's previously resisted calls for access to encrypted communications. Hillary Clinton, however, has called for Silicon Valley to "develop solutions that will both keep us safe and protect our privacy," adding that "Now is the time to solve this problem, not after the next attack." Clinton's remarks were made in the days between the Paris and San Bernardino incidents. -----BEGIN NSA SPEEDBUMP:I AM SPARTACUS----- Is it just /dev/random ? 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LeMonde: France To Block Tor
by grarpamp 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/after-paris-attacks-proposed-french-law-wo… French law enforcement wish to “Forbid free and shared wi-fi connections” and “to block or forbid communications of the Tor network.”

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The art of trolling at the highest political levels
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Credit where credit's due. Perhaps others will find this chuckle worthy: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/turkey-plays-poker-bosphorus-putin-do… Statesman, bare chested military strongman, international comedian. Entertainment don't get much better than this. Z

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